Incentivizing Dental Services in Healthy Behavior Medicaid Waivers
Despite the controversy, states continue to implement Medicaid waivers which pair healthy behavior incentives with cost-sharing responsibilities. The empirical evidence, which has largely ignored implementation differences between states, has not found that these waivers increase healthy behaviors, such as visiting the dentist. To address this evidence gap, we separately evaluated the effect of each state’s waiver on dental visits among adults targeted by the waiver. Between 2010-2019, four states implemented an HBI waiver, each with a different approach to incentivizing dental visits. With data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we estimated four separate Difference-in-Differences via Matrix Completion linear regression models to identify the effect of a waiver on the probability of visiting the dentist in the past year. In three states (Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin), the HBI waiver was not associated with increased dental visits. Only in Michigan, the state with the most generous and targeted HBI dental incentive, did we find a positive association between an HBI waiver and dental visits
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[2023]
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Authors: | Semprini, Jason |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung | Public health insurance | Zahnärzte | Dentists | Gesundheitsvorsorge | Preventive care | Sozialleistungsempfänger | Welfare recipients |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (23 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 25, 2023 erstellt |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.4459242 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348392
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